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Words Ending in WS

There are 18 words ending in WS on Word.ws, from 4 to 8 letters. The most common length is 4 letters (6 words). The words used most often are news, laws, arrows, jaws and paws.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

4-letter words ending in WS

  • jaws14n. The mouth.
  • laws7n. The police.
  • mews9n. An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
  • news7n. New information of interest.
  • paws9n. Pause, used in contexts of animals with paws.
  • yaws10n. A contagious tropical disease, caused by the spirochete Treponema...

5-letter words ending in WS

  • shaws11n. Stalks or leaves of root vegetables.
  • slows8n. Milk sickness.
  • snows8n. One or both regions of the Earth where it snows the year round; the...
  • stews8n. A brothel.
  • trews8n. Trousers, especially if close-fitting and tartan.

6-letter words ending in WS

  • arrows9n. Short darts feathered at the ends.

7-letter words ending in WS

  • bellows12n. A device for delivering pressurized air in a controlled quantity to a...
  • gallows11n. A wooden framework on which persons are executed by hanging.
  • hallows13n. The relics or remains of a saint, or the shrines in which they are kept.
  • narrows10n. A narrow part of a navigable waterway.
  • yellows13n. A kind of jaundice found in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing...

8-letter words ending in WS

  • shallows14n. An area in a large body of water with many shallow areas.
11 rare words ending in WS

Questions about these words

How many words ending in WS are there?
Word.ws lists 18 words ending in WS, plus 11 rare ones.
What are common words ending in WS?
news, laws, arrows, jaws, paws, slows, narrows and gallows.
Which of the words ending in WS has the highest letter score?
jaws scores 14 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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